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The Bering Sea’s biggest and most lucrative crab fisheries opened last week, and so far, fishing is looking good.“Fishing has been very good for the [Bristol Bay red king crab] fleet this season and the crab delivered so far has been of high quality — new shell, large size, good meat-fill,” said Alaska Department of Fish and Game Area Management Biologist Ethan Nichols.
Radio Specials
Tales on the Tundra. On Sept. 21, nearly 100 people showed up to share stories and tunes at the Yupiit Picaryarait Cultural Center in Bethel. They came for "Tales on the Tundra," an event co-hosted by the Kuskokwim Consortium Library, Southwest Alaska Arts Group, and KYUK. Radio specials produced by KYUK ranging in a variety of topics.
Public Safety - KYUK
Oct 24, 2024 · Man sentenced in 2020 armed incident at Kwethluk public safety building. Evan Erickson. , October 9, 2024. Twenty-five-year-old Bryan Nicolai was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for an incident in which he pulled a community fire alarm located in Kwethluk’s public safety building and threatened community members with multiple rifles.
Magnet fishing catches on with a group of Bethel high school …
Sep 24, 2024 · Corinne Smith. Corin Pike, a high school senior in the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program (ANSEP), shows off a set of handlebars retrieved while magnet fishing in Brown's Slough in Bethel on Sept. 8, 2024. A dozen teenagers heave on a skinny line of paracord stretched tight over the edge of a boardwalk in the center of Bethel.
New YKHC customer lodge opens more than 100 rooms for …
Jan 23, 2024 · The new Qavartarvik Customer Lodging facility in Bethel will provide access to 109 more rooms for travelling patients receiving treatment at the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Regional Hospital. Jan. 16, 2024. Winkelman said that for the first time in his 10 years at the helm, the corporation will have enough spaces for patients to stay.
Alaska State News - KYUK
Oct 24, 2024 · Maggie Nelson. , October 23, 2024. Charges against the young man involved in a fatal 2019 Unalaska car crash have been reduced, more than four years after he was originally indicted.Dustin Ruckman, who is now 23 years old, was originally charged in 2020 with two counts of manslaughter, two counts of criminally negligent homicide and one count ...
Librarians hopeful state will restore ‘massive’ cut in vital grant
Sep 23, 2024 · Alaska librarians are cautiously optimistic that a state agency will restore a big cut in funding for an annual grant that smaller rural libraries depend on. The abrupt reversal of August's cutback followed an outcry by librarians and the public. In August, the director of the Alaska Division of Libraries, Archives and Museums told librarians ...
Find Out Kuskokwim Subsistence Fishing Openings And …
Wednesday, June 19 from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 22 from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Who Can Fish: Federally qualified subsistence users. That means people living in communities along the Kuskokwim River and its tributaries, and in the coastal villages of Chefornak, Kipnuk, Kwigillingok, and Kongiganak. Drift Gillnet Restrictions:
Politics - KYUK
Nov 4, 2024 · Evan Erickson. , October 31, 2024. Nellie Jimmie was the top House District 38 candidate in the primary election, securing 44% of the vote. She has declined to do a standalone interview with KYUK before the general election. KYUK has compiled some of Jimmie’s answers to questions posed during KYUK’s 2024 HD38 Candidate Forum on Oct. 24.
YKHC CEO explains why YKHC activated crisis standards, and what …
Oct 6, 2021 · YKHC classifies the entire Y-K Delta under high transmission of COVID-19. The Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation continues to operate under crisis standards of care. On Oct. 5, President and CEO Dan Winkelman explained what precipitated that decision. He spoke during a public meeting over Zoom. YKHC activated the crisis care standards on Sept. 29.